Word: hecatomb
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mitchell." So successful were the President's men at concealing truth that despite all the reports, books and films since Watergate, Ehrlichman's novel is sure to be grasped by his still frustrated countrymen in hopes of gathering a few more shards of information about the political hecatomb that was the Nixon White House...
...Algeria did he show strain or emotion. "It should be known," said he, "that in four years in Algeria about 1,500 French civilians have been killed. More than 10,000 Moslems, men, women and children, have been massacred by the rebels-almost always by throat-cutting. What a hecatomb that country would know if we were stupid or cowardly enough to abandon...
...SKELETONS RATTLE- Frederick C. Davis- Crime Club ($2). The arrival of newlywed Criminologist Hatch and his bride in a sleepy Pennsylvania village precipitates a hecatomb. Four murders and two natural deaths, all linked in the same grisly puzzle, make it a real busman's honeymoon. A shrewdly plotted and super-shivery affair, with logical detecting and a leaven of dese-dose-&-dem humor...
...rugby match most appropriately marks the renewal of Harvard-Princeton contests in Cambridge. No lengthy training, no five dollar seats, and no shrieking ballyhoo have any part in the game. The priests of "sport for sport's sake" can burn another hecatomb. For the spectators, any lack of technique among the players will certainly be compensated by the appearance in person of that famous Will o' the Wisp, the amateur spirit...
Though the priggish pronunciation "Inquiry" is often heard, I have never known justice to be done to discrepancy, chestnut, or hecatomb since in college, and rarely to romance, finance, research, and resource. I have no desire to discuss the much-mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district...
| 1 |